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Michele Ruta on Trade Shifts

MICHELE RUTA July 31, 2024

New technology, the re-emergence of industrial policy, and rising geopolitical tensions are all putting added pressure on the international trading system. Michele Ruta is a trade expert at the IMF. He says global cooperation is key to preventing economic fragmentation, from which no one benefits. 

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Global / Central banks

Catherine Mann: A Central Banker’s View on Capital Flows

Catherine Mann June 6, 2024

Central banks worldwide share common practices in how they operate, but the UK’s central bank is unique in how it makes its rate decisions. Catherine Mann is a Professor of the Practice at Brandeis University and one of four external voting members of the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England. In this podcast, Mann says the pickup in capital flows in neighboring countries earlier this year required careful consideration by the BOE, and the broader range of backgrounds on its board helped to make the right monetary policy decisions. 

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Kristalina Georgieva: The 2020s: Turbulent, Tepid or Transformational?

KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA April 12, 2024

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva kicks off the 2024 IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings from the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC, with her customary curtain raiser speech. Go to IMF.org to follow the Annual Meetings and find all the IMF flagship reports, including the World Economic Outlook, the Global Financial Stability Report, and the Fiscal Monitor.

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Kristalina Georgieva: The Economic Possibilities for My Grandchildren

KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA March 21, 2024

John Maynard Keynes' novel lectures at King’s College, Cambridge, inspired economists and policymakers of the time and continues to do so a hundred years later. In this podcast, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva delivers a speech inspired by one of Keynes’ lectures to a young audience at the very same King’s College.

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Global / Industrial production

Not Your Grandmother’s Industrial Policy: Michele Ruta

MICHELE RUTA February 22, 2024

Economists have been predicting the return of industrial policy of late- and there’s no question it’s back, but what does today’s industrial policy look like? Michele Ruta is a trade expert at the IMF, and along with some colleagues compiled a new dataset that shows the extent to which new industrial policies are being used and what their real impact might be on the global economy.

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Global / Central banks

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das on the New Frontier for Central Banks

Shaktikanta Das November 9, 2023

The world of money is changing fast and central banks are at the very center of that change. Shaktikanta Das is the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, which is responsible for regulating currency and securing monetary stability for the world’s 5th largest economy. In this podcast, Das sits down with IMF Asia and Pacific Department head, Krishna Srinivasan, to discuss RBI’s strategy for today and for the future.

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Global / Development

Kristalina Georgieva: Building Bridges to Strong Future Growth

KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA October 6, 2023

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva kicked off the 2023 Annual Meetings in Marrakech with her customary curtain raiser speech from Cote d’Ivoire. It’s the first time since 1973 that the Annual Meetings are held in Africa and Georgieva says it’s an opportunity to pave the way to the next 50 years.

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Global / Globalization

Raghuram Rajan: Climate Action and Continued Globalization Joined at the Hip (2022 Per Jacobsson Lecture)

RAGHURAM RAJAN October 19, 2022

Amid growing calls to deglobalize the economy, Raghuram Rajan says not so fast.

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Global / Central banks

François Villeroy de Galhau on the Ethics of Currency

François Villeroy de Galhau, KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA September 22, 2022

In his lecture, Governor de Galhau says today's multiple crises are challenging public trust in central banks.

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Global / Globalization

Nicholas Mulder on Sanctions as a Weapon

Nicholas Mulder August 30, 2022

Sanctions are not new, but they deliver bigger global shocks and are easier to avoid than at any time in history.

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Global / Globalization

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas on Geopolitics and Dollar Dominance

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas June 17, 2022

In this podcast, IMF Chief Economist, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas discusses what fragmentation of the global economy might mean for the dominance of the US dollar in the international monetary and financial system.

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Global / Health

Epidemiologists Help Steer Economy Through COVID-19

KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA April 23, 2020

As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on economies across the globe, economists are trying to figure out what the best path forward is for countries at different stages of the pandemic.

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